Liese FINALLY at home in Philly!Row of fraternity houses across
the street is picturesque, but may need to be drowned out some nights..."First things first" Liese
immediately set up her Macbook so she could have TUNES.

Liese and her roommate Claire...Claire's mother also went
to Drexel and lived in this same dorm!

Claire and Liese againClaire was born in England
and Liese in Holland so they're the European girls.

Claire's BF John who's studying
at the Culinary Institute a few blocks away.He can cook for the girls
(both vegetarians) when they can't stand the dining hall anymore.

Liese's is the only dorm with
a mini-market in the building.Good for those late-night
Twizzler runs!

close up from mini-market

Poster fair outside Calhoun,
another of the dorms

the neighborhood

a renovated apartment building
in the neighborhood

neighborhood houses

some fixer-uppers in the neighborhood

The Drexel Dragon, the school's
mascot

the 30th Street Station, the
train station four blocks from her dorm...from here she takes a train
to Trenton where she switches for Bordentown.and then she walks three blocks
home. Round-trip costs $11 off-peak.

Driving it's 68 miles roundtrip
at 20 mpg is 3.5 gallons at $2.50 is $8.75plus the $2 toll to cross
the Burlington-Bristol Bridge, for a total cost of $10.75.You might as well take the
train and read or sleep without any traffic worries!And as gas gets more expensive,
it's gonna be cool she can get home anytime she can scrape together eleven
bucks.

Soul food truck always parked
outside the train station.

Bridge over the Schuylkill,
the river that runs through Philly and separates Center City(left, with all the museums
and historical points of interest)from University
City (right, home of Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania).The pronunciation of the name
is SKOO-kill, which is a complete bastardization of how it would have sounded
in the original Dutch.

Samsun Street, a University
City hangout with a European flavor

more shops and restaurants
in old brownstones on Samsun

Entrance to the White
Dog Cafe on Samsun,famous for its combination
of "food, fun and social activism"

leaving campus, heading east
on Market Street at rush hourWondering what it looks like
this minute?Check out Drexel's live webcam,
pointed at the intersection of 32nd and Market, here.

artistic shot of the The
Philadelphia Museum of Art,one of the country's major
art museums, eight blocks away.Students are $8 at all times
and Sundays are pay-as-you-wish for everyone.Still sorry I missed the Dali
exhibit there last year!

some other museum, who knows,
there are lots...

Philly is full of cool Revolutionary
War history.

The Ben Franklin Bridge connects
Philly to Camden, NJ,the most
violent city in the country. there on the other side of the Delaware.That's not the one we take
to get home though.

We take the skinny Burlington
(NJ)-Bristol (PA) bridge twenty miles north.

Like all bridges between NJ
and PA or NY,you never have to pay to ENTER
Jersey, just to leave it, what does that tell you?Once we're back on the other
side of the
river, it's just ten miles north home to Bordentown.